2nd Car Seized In Disappearance Of Missing Mom

Police Treating Case As Criminal Investigation

Police have seized a car in connection with the disappearance of a Maine mother whose child was found in a running car in New Hampshire parking lot during the weekend.

Krista Dittmeyer's car was found at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday with its engine running and hazard lights flashing in the Cranmore Mountain ski area parking lot. Dittmeyer's 14-month-old daughter, Alia, was in the backseat.

Police announced Monday that they seized a car in addition to Dittmeyer's car, but they would not disclose the name of the person who owns the car.

"We are processing some physical evidence that we seized at the scene and another location in Conway," Conway Police Department Lt. Chris Perley said. "We don't have any information that leads us to believe that she is not alive."

Perley said officials searched the area around the ski resort and are draining a retention pond in the area.

Officials are treating the disappearance as a criminal case. Police said Dittmeyer, 20, last spoke to her family Friday night.

"She would never ever, ever leave her in a car by herself. Ever," family friend Kathy Pratt said.

Police think that the car had been in the parking lot for several hours before it was found, and they believe that Dittmeyer was forced from the vehicle.

"Nothing in this investigation has suggested that she was suicidal, suffers from a debilitating mental illness or would have voluntarily wanted to absent herself from the vehicle or the child," Perley said.

Dittmeyer's family said she does have friends in the area, but police aren't saying who she was coming to visit, although they do say her acquaintances are cooperating in the investigation.

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